mulberry : Idioms & Phrases
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black mulberry
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noun European mulberry having dark foliage and fruit
Morus nigra.
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dwarf mulberry
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noun creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries
salmonberry; bakeapple; Rubus chamaemorus; cloudberry; baked-apple berry.
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mulberry family
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noun trees or shrubs having a milky juice; in some classifications includes genus Cannabis
Moraceae; family Moraceae.
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mulberry fig
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noun thick-branched wide-spreading tree of Africa and adjacent southwestern Asia often buttressed with branches rising from near the ground; produces cluster of edible but inferior figs on short leafless twigs; the biblical sycamore
sycamore; sycamore fig; Ficus sycomorus.
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Mulberry mass
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(Biol.) SeeMorula .
Webster 1913
mulberry tree
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noun any of several trees of the genus Morus having edible fruit that resembles the blackberry
mulberry.
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mulberry-faced
Mul"ber*ry-faced` adjective
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Having a face of a mulberry color, or blotched as if with mulberry stains.
Webster 1913
Paper mulberry
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noun shrubby Asiatic tree having bark (tapa) that resembles cloth; grown as a shade tree in Europe and America; male flowers are pendulous catkins and female are urn-shaped followed by small orange-red aggregate berries
Broussonetia papyrifera.
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- a tree (
Broussonetia papyrifera ), related to the true mulberry, used in Polynesia for making tapa cloth by macerating and pounding the inner bark, and in China and Japan for the manufacture of paper. It is seen as a shade tree in America.
Webster 1913
Red mulberry
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noun North American mulberry having dark purple edible fruit
Morus rubra.
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(Bot.) , an American mulberry of a dark purple color (Morus rubra ).
Webster 1913
white mulberry
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noun Asiatic mulberry with white to pale red fruit; leaves used to feed silkworms
Morus alba.